{"product_id":"teenage-time-coming-of-age-disruptively-in-literature-culture-and-film-1945-2024-9781350318427","title":"Teenage Time: Coming of Age Disruptively in Literature, Culture and Film 1945-2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdolescence has been codified as an unpredictable, experimental and liminal time. \u003ci\u003eTeenage Time \u003c\/i\u003ereads this phase as queer in its framing and disruption of developmental narratives of modernity, showing that the identity of the teenager, as it has been culturally perceived in different epochs developing since the 1940s, has shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century. From the conception of the teenager after the Second World War, through notions of rebellion and consumption peaking in the 1980s and 1990s, to representations of their precarious futures amidst the political, social, economic and environmental uncertainties of today, Pamela Thurschwell exposes British and American representations of the adolescent as both destructive and recursive in their disturbance of narrative and teleology in literature, film and sub-cultural history. Calling on theories of queer temporality, time studies, psychoanalysis and Marxist accounts of modernity, this book traces how the teenager is 'out of time' and time-travelling, commodified, anarchic, future\u003ci\u003eless\u003c\/i\u003e, precarious with an uneven distribution of time in relation to race, and how they confront dystopias in Young Adult catastrophe literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Covering a wide range of works, this book features contemporary and YA fiction such as \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSula, The Hate U Give\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fault in Our Stars, How I Live Now, Never Let Me Go, The Hunger Games\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThey Both Die at the End\u003c\/i\u003e, and films including \u003ci\u003eDonnie Darko\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Breakfast Club\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Back to the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSay Anything\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhost World\u003c\/i\u003e. Original and conceptually sophisticated, Thurschwell demonstrates how adolescence is formed in dialogue with a crisis in and of historical time, revealing the promise and destruction of the modern teenager.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePamela Thurschwell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature and Unhistoric Acts at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLiterature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eQuadrophenia and Mod(ern) Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). She has published widely on 19th, 20th and 21st-century literature, adolescence, and culture including Henry James, Taylor Swift, and \u003ci\u003eBojack Horseman\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615417958674,"sku":"9781350318427","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d502d298-14bd-4c6e-a996-610c7a9326bb.jpg?v=1758095432","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/teenage-time-coming-of-age-disruptively-in-literature-culture-and-film-1945-2024-9781350318427","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}